India, Aug. 17 -- Have you ever felt more stupid than anyone else alive? (not counting Chaddha ji, of course). I recently did. At a social gathering, with social distancing, I found myself standing between two gentlemen who were behaving as if they are in a race to win some imaginary episode of 'India's most intellectual.' They bragged ad nauseam about books, art, wine, cinema. and although each of these things I love and indulge liberally in, by the end of that discussion I felt like putting my fingers in the throat and choking myself....